Oxycodone

Does anyone take this for pain??

Im trying to figure the best one for me to where i can eat freely and still not be so sluggish or etc..

norco 325 is good but makes me dehydrated/and chill like than feverish. dont kno y.

I'm not sure if this would be a good one to use for intestinal pain. It does tend to bind one up.

Besides, debilitated, I don't know if your doctors will be too happy about such a young person using a med like this for chronic pain. They took me off it for exactly that reason -- too young to have to deal with the problems that long-term use can bring...

Hi, visiting from the UC forum. My doctors have always cautioned about taking opiates or other narcotics for chronic pain. I've actually seen in my nursing practice also that folks develop a tolerance and the med doesn't help, then it has to be increased. This happens over and over until the dosage can't be increased without killing the patient. I guess we healthcare people tend to think that's a bit extreme, lol.

Most IBD-ers I know try to maintain day to day with non-narcotic drugs, and save the big guns for when they have something exceptional - like surgery. You may want to talk to your doctor; a referral for pain management consult may be in order also.

I use the same as Nanners. It controls  the pain. I also use 2% lidocaine gel for the open/draining area,fistula and abscess by my anus. Most of us seem to need something PRN around here.

I was a bit hesitant to post this as i dont want sympathy i will do all i can to stop others from going thru what i did n it has CHANGED ME N LIFE PERMANTELY
I was over medicating on pain meds percocets n morphine
lost both parents n hubby left all within a couple of yrs
i got so bad i lost me
my daughter came home too find me face down in glass coffee table in a seizure
from there life support and a LONG stint in hospital
today i am free of those meds n yes they started helping my pain but literally numbed the person i was
i am now totally DEAF cannot hear a thing
have become less dependent on my 17 yr old daughter but i was fully dep on her at first

she is hurt n angry n i dont blame her
i was the one that did it not her
but she paid a heavy price n i could have died

PLEASE do not think percs are like m n ms as they are not
you build a tolerance and then one day your mind can literally snap
i also hv an issue with short term memory now

please DO find a good pain clinic this is not how you want to be is it

lyn..still living thank God n my doc n family / family here

Thanks vicky
yes i believe pain meds have a place in DD but i needed to numb more pain n anxiety then i could handle at the time
my tolerance is very high as you no doubt understand im just happy it is over with n i still am here to share hoping i can help even if only one person ya know
huggs
lyn

im on an ad now n yes it helps me out alot ty
thats a great idea as well for those not wanting to take major pain meds imho
as i said i know the pain but i hv to deal with it so different now

ty
lyn

Unfortunately, issues that opiates raise in UC are not those in CD generally. We don't usually run the risk of Megacolon & other colon issues. Unfortunately, many GI's don't recognize the difference, EITHER..

Matthew

I am very sorry to hear that some of you have had some terrible experiences with using narcotic medications for pain management, but this is not always the case for most people. I went down that route of not using pain medication and suffered so needlessly for years. I tried every single thing that I could outside of narcotics and finally with the advisement of an incredible internal medicine doctor and my G.I. decided to go down the lortab route. It has changed my life in ways that I never would have thought of and has helped immensely with my abdominal pain and arthritic pain. When this disease progresses enough, it becomes a chronic pain disease and it is not shameful or unwise to use a medication to treat that. If you can do that without the aid of a narcotic pain medication that is great, but if you can not it does not mean that you are doing something wrong.
There are a lot of old school G.I.s that have not caught on to the notion that antispasmotic medications will not solve all the pain issues. It is a completely individualized decision to decide if your situation would be better served by going with a strong medication. You have to consider your family history, your personality, your crohn's disease, and your addictive tendencies. If a person has a family history of alcoholism or drug addiction and carries the addiction gene, I would probably not recommend narcotics. As for the part that they bind you up, I consider that an amazing benefit to the medication and gravy on the original purpose of using the medication. If the medication is closely monitored by a responsible doctor or pain management clinic, they will be able to recognized if the medication is being abused or misused. They can also be responsible in the way that the medication is dispensed and make sure that a proper dosage is prescribed to help avoid the tolerance issues. You will eventually become tolerant as you will with most non narcotic medication also(anyone ever had to increase their remicade? I have) but your doctor can still increase the dosage responsibly or change you to a different medication if needed. To sum it up though, don't put off pain medicaton because of someone else's poor experience. There is always a chance for bad experiences with any medication but you may find that it ends up be a life changing medication similiar to what many others have.

Plus physical pain can litterly cause a cascade over the network of the brain triggering all sort of responses, including the emotional ones of fight or flight.  Because noone can really stop those fight or flight triggers and those can cause anxiety, panic, and depression if you are unable to escape the pain, which when it comes to crohns pain is very difficult escape.  So it is very easy to see how this issues are very intermingled and really is a good idea to treat both the physical and emotional aspects of pain. Take it slow, take it gentle, and always have a Doctor monitering your issues.

I agree that strong pain medications are a blessing when they are prescribed and used appropriately. Like many of us, however, I have to resist their seductive powers. First, they do provide more complete pain relief for very severe pain. Add to that the fact that they tend to make us feel good in general - those endorphin receptors in our brains - and they can become a problem without our even realizing it.

Everything is a balancing act, I guess. I've had major pain constantly for more than 20 years, so I've had personal experience with the issue.

Well, when you think about it, we don't have many options for pain relief because we can't take aspirin and other pain relievers that can cause bleeding. Last summer, I found myself in horrible pain with my colitis. So, in desperation, I took 1/2 of a loritab and found it relieved my pain quickly and it also stopped the spasms so I could actually have a bm. It was like a miracle for me after 20+ years of suffering with IBS/IBD with nothing to help. I was taking motrin in the past few years for pain relief until the GI told me to lay off them. So, perhaps this wouldn't be an issue if we had more options for pain relievers. We are backed against the wall on this one.

Stronger, non-addictive, painkillers are in development, apparently, and I think that will be a blessing for those of us with IBD.